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Link Roundup: Hot Fun in the Summertime!

July 26, 2008 By Megan Smith

With family in town, I fell a bit behind in my blog reading this week. I’m mostly caught up, and here are the links that got my attention this week.

  • Lame Things That Your Friends Do That Cost You Money Part I
  • The Smartest Advice on Money I Ever Got
  • Your Money In the Bank is Safe
  • Twelve Great Resources for Buying Smart
  • Five Ways To Get Back On Track
  • Five Easy Steps to Gauging Cost of Living Differences Between Big Cities
  • I’m Done Budgeting. I Quit. (love this!)

 

I participated in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Taking Charge. Highlights include:

  • Rationing Cards – A Pictoral Journey Down Nostalgia Lane
  • Investing Hack: Why I bought $199 in Apple Stock Instead of a New Apple 3G iPhone
  • Mental Accounting
  • Even Warren Buffet is Down 20% This Year
  • How to Max Out Credit Card Rewards

 

I also participated in this week’s Festival of Frugality, hosted by Antishay Ventenne. Highlights:

  • Stop Buying and Start Borrowing25 Ways to Improve Your Financial Situation in Under 10 Minutes
  • 50 Reasons to Go Green With Reusable Shopping Bags
  • Meal Planning: A Primer (Part 1)
  • Shopping Effectively
  • 7 Reasons Why We Need to Start Budget Tracking Now

I’m hosting the Finance Fiesta this week, so get your submissions in by Wednesday evening!

 

Megan Smith
Megan Smith

Megan is a 30-something government employee in the Washington, DC area. She got interested in Personal Finance when she got out of college and realized that her paycheck wasn’t going to go as far as she had hoped. Since starting this blog, she has managed to buy a house and make a solid start on her retirement goals, and hopes to help others do the same. Here is her story:

In 2007, I was a gainfully employed 20-something with no debt but not a lot of knowledge about personal finance.  It was a co-worker’s comment about Roth IRAs that sent me to the internet, searching for information.  It was then that I realized that I really didn’t know a whole lot about personal finance and that my current financial situation was due a lot to inherent frugal tendencies, generous family members, a fear of debt, and good luck.  While that was working for me, clearly I needed a better plan.

While I had no debt, I was also pretty much living paycheck to paycheck and not worrying about going over budget (I say this as if I had a real budget) because I had an emergency fund set aside to cover any overages.

Except that’s not what an emergency fund is for.

So I did a lot of research, read a lot of blogs, and decided that I needed a plan.  I needed to budget.  I needed to know what I was spending my money on.  I needed to prepare for the future.

I decided to create a blog not only to make myself accountable to others but also to share the knowledge that I gained along the way.  I’ve learned so much from my fellow bloggers, and I hope that my readers can find something useful in what I have to share as well.

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Comments

  1. Heather says

    July 26, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Thank you for the link love.

  2. Budgets are Sexy. says

    July 26, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Coolness, i actually just submitted mine over for the Finance Fiesta 🙂 Looking forward to seeing what we got this week.

  3. Tony Tovar says

    July 27, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Hey! Droppin’ by through Drop12.com, I clicked on one of the links on your site and found the “I’m tired of it. Sick about it. Through with it. Finished. Fertig. Done.” intro to I quit budgeting. To say the least, I thought to be quiet entertaining. However, I’m also highly impressed with how you’ve been managing your blog! Anyways, hope your blog is featured at Drop12.com more often!

    Respectfully,
    TT

  4. Squawkfox says

    July 27, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    Hey Megan! Thank you so much for the mention! 🙂

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